Chapter 224: middle finger, wildfire, group hallucination

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Xiaochi Chi is holding a cup, and his heart is clear: "I'm not that weak, brother."

Ying Lou hit the nail on the head: "Are you not, or are you just used to it?"

Xiaochi Chi warmed his palms with a cup: "When you get used to it, it's gone."

Ying Lou stopped talking, raised her hand and flicked him on the forehead.

It didn't hurt very much, but Xiaochi Chi was surprised and hissed, and was just about to say something when Ying Lou zipped up his sleeping bag with a quick movement.

Xiaochi Chi, suddenly plunged into darkness, was confused and raised his hand to scratch his sleeping bag: "Brother, what is this?"

Ying Lou said from outside, "Lock you up."

Xiaochi Chi would have laughed if he hadn't known the mood was wrong.

To avoid further beatings, Xiaochi Chi lay flat and stopped talking.

Who knows, Ying Lou reached out and took the whole sleeping bag into her arms.

Xiaochi Chi, who was wrapped into a green ball, was caught off guard and leaned her head on Ying Lou's shoulder.

Next to that piece of warmth, Xiaochi Chi heart also quiet a lot, simply picked a comfortable place to pillow.

He took the initiative to explain, "I was trying to solve the task as soon as possible ...... sorry, did not consider your feelings."

"Well, this apology, I can accept." The sleeping bag was thick, and Xiaochi Chi could only faintly feel Ying Lou's warm breath against her ear, if it slid by, "And then?"

Xiaochi Chi : "Well?"

Ying Lou stroked Xiaochi Chi's eyebrow, which had just been sore, and nudged it with her fingertips: "What's the apology for this person?"

Xiaochi Chi's heart stirred as she listened to Ying Lou's rational and gentle whispers.

"The mission is important to you, it's important to me, it's important to Anyi Bai. But there's no logical relationship between that and the fact that you're 'treating this person as expendable'."

Ying Lou was never very good at getting angry.

He tends to be very tolerant and understanding of people and things, unless it offends his bottom line, otherwise, even if he personally disagrees, he won't attack and criticize it wantonly.

"'Death' is something that saps the spirit of a person. I've seen a lot of people die and know that 'death' is numb after much experience."

Ying Lou closed her eyes with a stoic expression, thinking back to the two hosts she had taken before Xiaochi Chi.

...... At first, after committing suicide when separated from the world, they were baffled and broken, but after experiencing death again and again, they gradually adapted and stopped taking "death" seriously, and even joked with Ying Lou, asking how they should die this time. It's more creative.

This kind of monstrous spirit should not exist in Xiaochi Chi.

Even the mere thought of it is intolerable to Ying Lou.

However, even so, Ying Lou can't be too hard on Xiaochi Chi.

This seems to be a very bad habit too.

"I know he is a very strong man, and I do not ask him to become weak, to become dependent on me. But, at least, I want him to learn to be weak and afraid in this matter, for my sake and for his own."

Ying Lou rubbed Xiaochi Chi's brow repeatedly through his sleeping bag and said, "All in all, this man is very important to me. Can you be nice to him."

Xiaochi Chi shrugged a little in his arms, as if nodding his head.

Ying Lou sighed, shielded his head and asked him down, "Scared."

The big ball in his arms lifted his head, supposedly looking at him.

Ying Lou raises her hand and traces the outline of Xiaochi Chi's features with her fingertips half a centimeter from the sleeping bag.

He added, "Do you get scared when you're in the water."

Xiaochi Chi's muffled voice came from the sleeping bag, "Just thinking about seeing you when I open my eyes is ...... okay."

At that, Ying Lou's heart softened completely.

He pinched the zipper on the outside of the sleeping bag and gently pulled it open, moving meticulously as if opening a gift.

Xiaochi Chi took off Anyi Bai's gold-rimmed glasses early, his sweaty black hair moistened and stuck to his cheeks, sweat parting from his forehead at the corners of his eyes, and his eyes looked crystal bright in the dark light.

He looked at Ying Lou with a smile on his face.

Ying Lou tried her best to look serious: "What are you laughing at?"

Xiaochi Chi : "...... I think of the old days."

"I used to fall out with you unilaterally, saying I would never come to your house again, but every time I came back to your door and begged for reconciliation." Xiaochi Chi voice can't hide the novelty, "This is the first time I've seen you lose your temper like this. ...... But this should not be considered angry."

Xiaochi Chi said, Xiaochi Chi side, one hand propped up cheek: "Brother, you seriously angry with me to see, OK."

Ying Lou took a deep breath at such an aggressive behavior.

He said, "Come here. I'll show you how angry I am."

Xiaochi Chi really knows how to be angry with people, because Ying Lou understands the situation, knows that at this time is still in the mission, will not do anything to himself, wrapped in a sleeping bag cheeky to go over.

Ying Lou was no slouch, creating a table in front of Xiaochi Chi: "I've written down everything you've done."

Xiaochi Chi was already prepared to be pulled out of her body with a card and kissed by Ying Lou, so she couldn't help but be stunned at the words, "...... ha?"

Ying Lou said, "At any cost, hurt yourself, quantitative assessment first deducted a twenty points before."

Xiaochi Chi : "......" He had mixed feelings about being reversed by a move he was familiar with.

He humbly asked for advice, "Teacher, what if you fail the exam."

"Punishment." Ying Lou said, "I haven't figured out what the punishment is. I will let you know when you fail the course. Now give you the homework. If you don't do it well, you will also be deducted points."

"What kind of homework?"

Ying Lou pulled the open sleeping bag a little tighter and pinned his wet hair behind his ear: "Sleep."

Xiaochi Chi was indeed tired, and his eyelids soon fought as his spirit loosened up.

But he couldn't let go of such a good atmosphere, squinting his eyes and talking nonsense to Ying Lou: "Can't sleep. Let me use a hypnosis card."

Ying Lou held him down: "Don't get too attached to the card. Otherwise what do you want me to do."

Xiaochi Chi deliberately asked, "What do I want you to do?"

Xiaochi Chi's small mind is not hidden from Ying Lou.

He took out a book of fairy tales, looked down and turned the pages, his lips smiling: "I am what you want me to be."

However, Ying Lou had just put Xiaochi Chi to sleep when Rou Zhao came in with a limp.

Her hair was disheveled and she was in a trance, like she had just had a bad dream.

Ying Lou quickly got up and held her back three steps away from Xiaochi Chi.

Rou Zhao lips white, not a word, as if afraid of who heard, grabbed Ying Lou's sleeve, in his sleeve stroke by stroke: "...... someone came over ...... about half an hour later ......"

Ying Lou signaled her with his mouth to "take it easy" and was about to pull her out of the tent when he heard a rustling behind him.

Xiaochi Chi got up from his sleeping bag, stretched, rubbed his eyes and said, "We have guests."

Rou Zhao saw that he was so heartless, his heart was more anxious, but he was afraid of moving too much and attracting attention.

You know, after a fight during the day, now there can be countless pairs of invisible eyes, watching their every move.

Rou Zhao did not dare to go into detail about what she saw in the precognition, for fear of having an ear to the ground, and because she did not even dare to recall the horrific dream.

...... That's what happened when she didn't come to see Xiaochi Chi.

She was awakened by the beeping sound of burning fire, grabbing the road out when the meadow had turned into a fire, a charred corpse lying on the ground, muscles curled, still holding a burning dice in his hand, a single double a face blackened by fire, was using his jacket to fight the fire that had spread all the way to his feet.

--Someone set the fire!

Fire through the wind, spreading extremely fast, like a ferocious snake, endlessly towards Rou Zhao pounced.

Fire, diffuse fire, hot to the face, rapidly consuming the oxygen in the air, inhalation and exhalation of gas gradually become hot and thin.

Anyi Bai and Jiangyu Chi are nowhere to be found.

Their corpses are probably strewn across whatever fire is burning.

With hellish images spinning in his head, Rou Zhao Zhao's tongue stiffened and he could only burst out of his teeth in a piteous and vague plea, "Go. ...... Let's go."

Whatever Anyi Bai's ability is, teleportation should be one of them.

With this ability, they can at least get away without any problems ......

Fortunately, Xiaochi Chi quickly understood her intentions, "Go of course."

Rou Zhao breathed a huge sigh of relief and was about to go and inform the other two when he heard Xiaochi Chi say behind him, "...... but it will have to wait until tomorrow morning. I'm too tired today and want to get some rest."

"Don't you want to die?" Rou Zhao was eager, and did not care whether he would expose the fact that his ability had increased, and said sharply, "Someone -"

Xiaochi Chi said, "I know, someone is coming to set the fire."

The word "fire" startled Rou Zhao, who looked incredulously at Xiaochi Chi.

"What a great piece of grass." Xiaochi Chi said, "...... is simply too good for setting fires, isn't it?"

After that, he looked up at Rou Zhao, who was staring at him, and smiled brightly: "You've worked hard. Go back to sleep. You were just having a bad dream."

Rou Zhao : "But I saw ......"

Xiaochi Chi asked in return, "How can you be sure that what your eyes see is the truth?"

......

When the moon was dark and windy, two figures dived into the grass.

After a man determined that the current wind direction was southeast, he moved his wrist: "Come on, don't delay."

Another man looked at his watch and couldn't hide his joy, "Look at the odds on both of us! They even rewarded us with so many 'bounty orders' ...... If I get out alive, I'll make a fucking fortune!"

The former frowned: "Don't be fooled, there is a transient among them, when the fire is burning, they may run away."

The latter smiled and said, "Escape? They can't escape. Look at the pop-up analysis, that person's instantaneous teleportation ability hasn't been used again after using it three times today. If his ability still worked, they could have moved farther away, why would they have to walk to the A8 area to land on their own?"

The former looked at his watch, it was just 11 o'clock.

The latter said, "The pop-up said that many of the abilities of the psychics are affected by the tides and can only be used a fixed number of times a day. Before midnight zero, is the best time for us to do it."

The former did approve of this judgment: "They all slept?"

"Well, all asleep. Even Jiangyu Chi, who has the strongest ability, has gone into the tent. Eighty percent of them think they are full of five people, other psychics do not dare to fight hard."

He sounded smug, as if the idea was all his own.

Needless to say, with the pop-up guide, they are playing the game with the full map cheat on.

The latter sounded sure of himself, and the former looked at the pop-ups and found that they were also mostly words of encouragement, telling the two of them to work together and give that bunch of assholes a look.

He surged with infinite confidence, adjusting his breath and spewing out a strong stream of air from his mouth, piercing through the grass and leaves and attacking the camp directly!

The latter did not slow down, snapped his fingers, and sent the fireball rubbed out of his fingertips like a bowling ball forward -

In a flash, the stars were alight.

At that moment, Rou Zhao, who had been persuaded by Xiaochi Chi to return to his tent, could not sleep peacefully.

The time of precognition has been extended, and there are many more restrictions, she can not launch precognition again in a short period of time, can only toss and turn in the sleeping bag, counting almost half an hour, so she raised a step out of the tent.

Who would have thought that the sight she saw would be exactly the same as the one in her dream!

As usual, the blazing fire burning surface, black smoke rolling, the corpse strewn, and single double holding clothes, as if crazy, trying to extinguish the blazing fire all over the ground.

Rou Zhao could not find Xiaochi Chi and the others, and thought they had escaped by teleportation, so he felt black.

Rou Zhao, who was dead, went up to the fire and grabbed the clothes in the single hand: "It's useless! I still have half a bucket of water in my tent, let's try to see if we can--"

Before the words died, she grabbed the "single double" will be like a painting that was splashed with water, quickly melted away, faded, until it turned into nothing.

Rou Zhao stood frozen in place, looking around.

Not only is the "single and double" gone, but the scene around them has also changed.

...... They were not in a pasture, but in a corner of the moor, with four tents gathered together, and she was standing by a burning campfire, beside which sat Ying Lou, the night watchman.

Ying Lou said gently, "You're awake?"

Rou Zhao is now really unable to distinguish between dream and reality: "Where is this ...... place?!"

Ying Lou said, "Look at the watch. There's our locator."

Rou Zhao took a good look and was too shocked to speak.

...... They are actually in B3?

Rou Zhao felt like his head was going to explode: "How did this ...... happen? When did we get here? What I saw was clearly ......"

"You predicted it correctly."

Xiaochi Chi's voice came from behind him.

He was up and drinking water, his voice still laced with the dry accent of someone who had just woken up: "What you foresaw was the illusion I wanted certain people to see, and the image the two arsonists thought they saw."

"...... hallucinations?"

Name: Illusion Creation Card - Group (Advanced)

Duration: 8 hours

Number of pieces: 1

Quality: Fine

Type: Single-use items

Required exchange points: 50 points of remorse

Introduction: Don't eat the mushrooms bought in the market in Yunnan, they are poisonous.

This group attack card was used early on when Xiaochi Chi entered the tent after dinner.

Once inside the tent, he moved the entire camp up in place and moved it all to B3.

But in the perception of everyone else but him and Ying Lou, they are still in the meadow.

He anticipated his own energy drain after the suicide immersion experience, so his initial intention in moving the illusion-making card was simply to confuse those watching so that he could get a good night's sleep.

The choice of the dry and flammable A8 meadow habitat is the second layer of insurance Xiaochi Chi has made.

If someone really comes to set fire in the night, this illusion card will let them "see" everything they want.

Extremely smooth winds, unattended tents, and a sleeping quintet.

What they want, they get.

But whether that's the case or not, that's something God only knows.

The only thing Xiaochi Chi didn't expect was that Rou Zhao, who had been hit by the illusion creation card, would be able to anticipate what would happen in the illusion, making her scared for half an hour for nothing.

Ying Lou fiddled with the fire and glanced at his watch in passing.

The two red dots on the map, silently extinguished in the A8 area.

He shook his head slightly.

Those two people who were immersed in a hallucinatory dream lit a fire and burned themselves to death with their own hands under the conditions of the headwind and the blind pointing of the pop-ups.

I'm afraid that until the time of death, they are still dreaming of making a fortune after they leave.

After the duo who set the fire was engulfed by the rapidly spreading headwind wildfire, the pop-up area also gradually realized that something was wrong.

After a lot of discussion, Xiaochi Chi chose to cancel the use of the illusion card.

When the five-man red dot that was supposed to be in A8 was positioned in B3, the pop-up area went into an unprecedented frenzy.

Shouldn't Jiangyu Chi and the others be burned to death?

What powers do they really possess?

What are they up to and what tricks are they playing?

In the midst of countless curses and abuses, Xiaochi Chi put down his glass of water and raised his hands above his head.

Someone in the pop-up section wondered, "What's he doing?"

"What kind of supernatural power is to be performed?"

"Planning to surrender?"

There are many different opinions.

And Xiaochi Chi ignores anyone.

He turned in place to the countless pairs of prying eyes in the sky and wordlessly compared two middle fingers high up.

Published at: 01/12/2022 15:47